Point Deception

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A number of persons, knowingly or otherwise, have provided inspiration for or assistance with this novel. I’d like to thank:

Sharon DeLano, for not allowing my imagination get the best of me while we were stranded by the side of California Highway 1.

Bette and Jim Lamb and Peggy and Charlie Lucke, for setting the scary ideas to brewing on our first trip to “Cascada Canyon.”

Robin Reese, for Chrystal.

Detective Lieutenant Bruce Rochester of the Sonoma County, California, Sheriff’s Department, for technical assistance.

Melissa Ward, again, for her research talents.

Soledad County, California, is a fictional creation, sandwiched between Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. I apologize to my neighbors on the coast for so drastically altering its configuration. Sometimes we writers can’t resist playing God.

Friday, October 6

4:00 P.M.

Things look different when you’re scared. And I’m scared now. Little Chryssie’s scareder than she’s been her whole life. Jude told me I’d never get away with it, but I thought I had, and then somebody saw me up there in all those trees, and now this damn Mercedes is dead on the coast highway where my cell phone won’t work. God, I’m in trouble. Making Jude right. Again. Always.

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